February, 2008

Office Live Workspace – first feature update goes live

Office Live Workspace launched last December and just got its first update, what’s new:

  • A new Activity pane to help you keep track of what’s happening in your workspaces and email notifications so you always know when the people

Microsoft to launch new MSN Toolbar beta – Powered by Silverlight

Later today we should see the reincarnation of MSN Toolbar in beta form (codename Salsa). Like many older MSN products, it migrated over to the new Windows Live brand early 2007, however as part of the gradual drift back, its been …

Windows Live service restored (again?, still?)

See, is this so hard?  The Email Support Space blog posts tonight, reporting that “nearly all customers are once again able to sign in”, with some specific information coming for customers who are still unable to login, “once you …

Windows Live Platform Announcements: Cool new toys just in time for Mix

With Mix08 less than a week away, details of what’s coming are slowly creeping out: details of the IE8 beta, Scott Guthrie has posted details about Silverlight 2.0. And now the Windows Live Platform team is announcing today …

Microsoft launches WorldWide Telescope into private alpha

It made Scoble cry, and soon it can make you cry too. The website for the latest Microsoft Research project, WorldWide Telescope, is now up at http://wwtelescope.com/. Here’s how Robert describes it:

“So, back to the World Wide Telescope.

Windows Live ID issues continue – Transparency: 0, Switching to GMail: 1

The Times of London is reporting an admission by Microsoft that problems that surfaced two days ago in signing in to Windows Live services continue for some, in spite of Microsoft’s proclamation that the issue had been resolved.  In a …

Musings on MSFT-YHOO

I keep dropping stuff in both the NewsGator Clippings folder and del.icio.us on our MSFT-YHOO page, but since Dare was kind enough to work up a chart I was just thinking about, I thought I would add a few …

Microsoft’s lack of sticking to standards rears it’s ugly head again

I was going to do a short article on how easy it is to extract information and generally mess around with Windows Live Spaces blog posts in your code using LINQ, however due to Microsoft’s lack of sticking to standards, …

Live Services problems reported: LiveID, Messenger, Mail are down for some

Apparently a fairly widespread disruption in some/all LiveID and Live services has been occuring for a good part of the morning (GMT-8).  We don’t know more at this point except to say Messenger had issues signing in here, as did …

Windows Mobile Developer Center Renewed

The Windows Mobile Developer Center has been renewed. First of all you’ll notice there are 4 big boxes delivering the latest articles per category:

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Beside those boxes, on the top right, you’ll find “Getting Started with Windows Mobile”. There you …